It’s cliché to compare a love story to Romeo and Juliet. It’s like saying a detective reminds you of Sherlock Holmes. Yet it’s hard to avoid, watching Channel 4’s drama set in 1970s Northern Ireland. Trespasses follows Cushla Laverty, a…
Category: 5. Entertainment
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My cultural awakening: The Big Lebowski inspired me to embrace unemployment | Culture
Quitting your job in your 30s with no solid plan is generally considered poor decision-making. Doing it because you watched The Big Lebowski is probably even worse. But as I faced up to what would be my eighth year in an IT role, I watched Jeff…
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Sound of Belfast: Guts, grassroots and the NI Music Prize headline festival
On Monday, Bonded will see Rory and Ewen Friers from post-rock mainstays And So I Watch You From Afar talk to BBC Radio Ulster’s Stephen McCauley about the making of their recent album Megafauna, which will also be played in full to a live…
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Robert Pattinson Asks Jennifer Lawrence Point-Blank If She Thinks ‘Hunger Games’ Is ‘Cooler’ Than ‘Twilight’
Robert Pattinson couldn’t hide his shock when he learned his “Die My Love” co-star Jennifer Lawrence once auditioned for “Twilight.”
Ahead of the release of their new comedy-thriller film, Pattinson and Lawrence participated in Vanity…
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TV tonight: Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande’s big Wicked night in | Television & radio
Wicked: One Wonderful Night
8pm, Sky Max
A glitzy warm-up for Wicked superfans ahead of the second film’s release next week, with this pink and green bonanza recorded live at the Dolby theatre in Los Angeles. Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande lead…
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Kendrick Lamar, Lady Gaga lead 2026 Grammy nominations – Dawn
- Kendrick Lamar, Lady Gaga lead 2026 Grammy nominations Dawn
- Kendrick Lamar and Lady Gaga lead 2026 Grammy nominations BBC
- UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP’S FAMILY OF ARTISTS, LABELS AND SONGWRITERS NOMINATED ACROSS ALL GENRES FOR THE 68TH ANNUAL GRAMMY…
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How the Celebrity Traitors reversed TV’s most troubling trend | Social media
There are not many plaudits left for The Celebrity Traitors, which has delivered tension, crowd-pleasing ineptitude and the most famous fart in television history.
Yet for all the show’s achievements, one in particular – a feat that TV…
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From the Celebrity Traitors finale to a Margaret Atwood memoir: the week in rave reviews | Culture
TV
If you only watch one, make it …
The Celebrity Traitors final
BBC iPlayer
Summed up in a sentence A sensational, phenomenal and genuinely mind-boggling conclusion to the TV series of the moment.
What our reviewer said “Above all I shall miss…Continue Reading
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Tim Dowling: life on the road was so much simpler than being at home | Family
It is early morning, the low sun is glinting off wet tarmac. I’m in a coffee shop next to a petrol station, across the car park from the Travelodge where I spent the night, somewhere just north of Brighton. The middle leg of the band’s…
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